Complete List of Signing Statements made by Bush - A Must Read

I've listed a couple of examples of Bush's signing statements from 2006. Note the language used - especially in the second example - "unitary executive branch"

Bookmark the below link and you can check each week for any and every signing statement he makes.


Excerpts from 2006 Signing Statements

Statement on Signing the Department of Defense, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations to Address Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and Pandemic Influenza Act, 2006
December 30, 2005

"The executive branch shall construe
these sections in a manner consistent
with the constitutional authority of the President."

Statement on Signing the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006

"The executive branch
shall implement these provisions in a manner consistent with the
President's constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive
branch"

More at Search Signing Statements

In the search field type "signing statements"(w/o the quotes). They come in Text, PDF and Summary.

the Dems had publicized this long before the blogsphere did.

another step in the bush crime family/bilderberg/carlyle group march to a police state-dictatorship.

Why can't we arrest bush now???

arrest him now. He deserves it.

Great, but nauseating, post. Thanks! K&R

4 or 5 years.

that we only know a fraction of what these fiends have done. If Congress as a whole and the entire blogosphere cannot keep track of their evil in real time, that should disturb us all because we honestly do not know the scope of damage to this country.

Thanks Solly. Bookmarked.

and they're very disturbing.

this next week. They must be, we all know what he wants and we all know that he feels that he owns this country and that we are nothing but his subjects. I am certain they are disturbing.

Thank you so much for digging all of this up. I would guess this is common knowledge in Congress and that disturbs me even more. You would think it would have caused them to do something, anything.

the signing orders - and you would think after over 500 of them, they would have before now.

Yes, Congress should have been bringing these signing statements up. Especially considering Bush's attitude about checks and balances and things being easier if he was a dictator. Alito wrote a legal opinion back in '86 regarding signing statements and the unitary executive - his take on both should have been enough to forever bar him from the SCotUS.

It is unconscionable that we did not stop or at least filibuster that nomination on the unitary executive fact alone but in addition to the wording and the hubris of these signing statements it is simply tragic.

against cloture, Alito would have not have been confirmed. It is unconcionable that these "representatives of the people" would have sold us out so badly.

Has he ever heard of checks and balances? Perhaps impeachment?

But he doesn't care about checks and balances - obviously... and he doesn't fear impeachment - it would seem

I'd like to hope that if it comes to that the murcan people would not stand for any abrogation of the 22nd amendment, but, I'm not sure I'd put it past these imperialists to try.

Which is exactly what Bush is.

Translation of all of the signing statements I'm going to do whatever I want, you Filthy Little Nobodies.

not a monarchy

phrase. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

unitary executive is like saying divine rights

:grr: I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!!!!! :grr:

slowly but surely disregarding and redefinng the law to suit his aims.

Ever since man/boy sealed the Presidential Files, I have officially determined that he is a non-entity. If he were to stand in front of me with a gun, I would act as if there were no one there. And, if he shot me at that point, I swear I wouldn't care. I REFUSE to acknowledge ANY authority to which he may lay claim. I consider the US to be in a state of anarchy and illegal occupation.

"Signing Documents?" Bah. They concern me as much as a grocery list he may have generated. In fact, I am now going to compose my own "signing document". This will be a good exercise for me. If anyone is interested in seeing it once it is composed, let me know, and I will post it.

Nathan Hale
Lover of the America
that may only have existed in my dreams,
but certainly doesn't exist now

I happen to be of the mind that I don't have to adhere to a "social contract" that the government has defaulted on and the government has defaulted.

America is laboring under an illegal occupation, I agree.

It's no surprise that the "unitary executive" is the afterbirth of the Federalist Society. :puke:

back to the Whitehouse. He's always saying one thing but it always means something else - as he defines it.

He's been expanding the power of the executive since he got there - refusing to release documents, disobeying orders to do so,inventing the "post 9-11" thinking talking point, and national security to justify every abuse.

Now it seems he's been disregarding the law from the get-go and it's not just torture he's been re-defining.

Should read"


"in a manner consistent with our interpretation of the constitutional authority of the President."

signing orders.

Bush hasn't just been re-defining torture to suit his aims - he's re-defined the entire executive and has eliminated congressional checks and balances with most of his signing orders.

these issues.

discussed before? "I serve at the pleasure of the President"...that pat response that gags me each time I hear it, as it is obvously not spontaneous. B* serves at the pleasure of us, or he's supposed to as an elected official (of course that doesn't apply to him either, Scotus selection and Diebold) unless he changes the very nature of the Presidency. It's actions like these that make me doubt B*'s stupidity at times.

well before Alito's nomination, but it really wasn't until Alito's nomination that attention was paid to this neo-con interpretation of the executive.

He's been expanding the powers of the office President since the beginning. Not releasing documents and constantly claiming executive privilege - from Cheney's energy task force and on up to his favorite , "post-9/11 thinking", to justify the President ignoring certain laws.

I knew that...

but to know he's been undermining law after law with this thinking since the very beginning?.....this is something that should have been blasted across the news and wasn't...

Congress should have objected long before Alito's nomination

I don't happen to think Bush is stupid. Ignorant and clueless about some things, yes...but stupid? No. He set out to do this and he's accomplishing it.

Remember the phrase, "restore honor and integrity" back to the Whitehouse?

Well, you know how Bush says one thing but it means another?

"Unitary executive" is Bush's definition of restoring "honesty and integrity" - elevating the executive above all other branches. He is re-defining the role and office of the executive just as he re-defined the word torture - and breaking laws to do it.

What we are seeing now, more fully exposed, has always been his goal.

status as the lawmaking arm of the US govt.

Office of Inspector General belies the fact that wrongdoing in any fictitious 'unitary' executive is impossible.

Ideologically, promoting the selling and growing of tobacco (for example) with USDA subsidies contradicts the unitary executive's other department of Health and Human Services who subsidize programs doing the exact opposite.

A DoD OIG would therefore ignore investigating bogus WMDs while a State Dept OIG (if he/she were honest with themselves) would be investigating as we speak and going where the Constitution requires, not following White House talkingpoints or DOJ legal justifications for same.

Joseph Wilson will be avenged.

Now it more and more clear why it was that he couldn't walk the streets like a regular president. He knew that he was so unpopular that someone would try something. He never talks to anyone who has a differing opinion of him because he knows there are many, many, many people who disagree with him and would like an opportunity to say or do something about what he is doing to America.

I continue to think that the truth will out and it will bring about a reversal of the negative karma that he has brought to our country and the world.

At least it happens in my dreams. He and his are brought down by their own actions.

:kick:

I was curious since a while back I heard on Hannity's radio show that Bush's signing statements weren't a big deal and not new since Clinton used signing statements all the time. So thank you for posting that link so that I could look that up and compare. By random I selected 1997 and then selected a military appropriations bill. Every one of Clinton's signing statements are similar. God how I hate, deplore, and detest the RW media propaganda.



*edited for my usual typos

combined. In addition,and the most disturbing, besides the language Bush uses - is the intent of his signing statements. His intent has been to remove the checks and balances built into the laws and expand the power of the executive, by placing the office of President outside the controls necessary for our government to function as it is supposed to to function.